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Research Training & Development

Programs & Opportunities

Build research experience, connect with mentors, and contribute to meaningful emergency medicine investigation.

Emergency Medicine Research offers pathways for students, residents, fellows, and developing investigators to engage with scientific discovery, clinical research, data-driven investigation, simulation, and translational science.

Opportunities may include mentored research experiences, project participation, research education, funding support, presentations, and collaboration with faculty investigators.

Explore Your Path

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Find Your Research Path

Research opportunities can look different depending on where you are in your training. Explore the pathway that best matches your current stage.

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Undergraduate Students

Gain early exposure to emergency medicine research through mentored projects, laboratory experiences, data-focused work, and research team participation.

  • Research assistant experience
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Laboratory exposure
  • Faculty mentorship
  • Poster or presentation development
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Medical Students

Develop research skills while exploring clinical questions, translational science, education research, outcomes investigation, and scholarly projects.

  • Faculty-mentored projects
  • Clinical research participation
  • Summer research experiences
  • Abstract and poster development
  • Scholarly collaboration
 
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Undergraduate Students

Build a focused research portfolio with mentorship, project development, data analysis, presentation support, and opportunities for scholarly dissemination.

  • Mentored research projects
  • Quality and outcomes research
  • Simulation studies
  • Conference presentation
  • Publication development
 
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Fellows

Advance toward independent investigation through structured research mentorship, focused project development, and deeper engagement with Emergency Medicine research infrastructure.

  • Advanced research mentorship
  • Project leadership
  • Data and biostatistical support
  • Scientific writing
  • Career development
 

Ways to Participate

Research involvement can take many forms. Opportunities may range from supporting active projects to developing independent research questions with faculty mentorship.

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Mentored Research

Work with a faculty investigator to develop research skills and contribute to an active or developing project.

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Project Participation

Join a research team through data collection, literature review, laboratory work, simulation, clinical research coordination, or analysis.

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Research Education

Develop foundational skills in study design, research ethics, scientific communication, data interpretation, and scholarly writing.

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Funding & Scholarly Support

Access may include internal support for research development, presentations, travel, or other scholarly activities where available.

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Presentation & Dissemination

Build experience communicating research through abstracts, posters, presentations, manuscripts, and collaborative scholarship.

Featured Opportunity Examples

These examples illustrate the types of opportunities trainees may encounter across the Emergency Medicine research environment.

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Translational Research Experience

Undergraduate / Medical Studentdd

Work alongside a translational research team to learn basic laboratory workflows, scientific documentation, literature review, and research methodology.

Laboratory Research Scientific Reading Research Methods

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Clinical Outcomes Research Project

Medical Student / Resident

Contribute to a data-driven investigation focused on emergency care outcomes, including literature review, data interpretation, and scholarly presentation.

Clinical Research Data Analysis Scientific Writing

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Simulation & Education Research

Resident / Fellow

Participate in research examining simulation, education, or clinical practice improvement within emergency medicine.

Simulation Education Research Scientific Writing

 
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Research Starts With Connection

Connect With Investigators

Faculty mentorship can help trainees identify meaningful research questions, understand available opportunities, and develop skills across the research lifecycle.

Investigators work across multiple research domains, allowing trainees to connect with expertise in translational science, resuscitation, simulation, education, data science, clinical outcomes, and operational medicine.

Meet Our Investigators

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Laboratory research experience
Simulation and practice improvement
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Laboratory research experience

Support for Your Research Development

Successful research experiences depend on more than access to a project. Mentorship, infrastructure, data support, and scholarly guidance help trainees grow throughout the research process.

Faculty Mentorship

Guidance from investigators with expertise across Emergency Medicine research domains.

Data & Biostatistics

Analytical resources that support rigorous study design, data interpretation, and outcomes research.

Research Infrastructure

Access to laboratory, clinical, simulation, and research operations resources.

Scholarly Development

Support for abstracts, presentations, manuscripts, and research communication.

Explore the Research Ecosystem

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Research Domains

Explore our areas of scientific focus.

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Current Research

Explore active research and project areas.

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Discover faculty research expertise.

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Research Infrastructure

Explore the resources supporting research.

FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT RESEARCH, PLEASE CONTACT

Austin Stevens
Director, Research & Science
Email 
801-585-1216